Tarski 2.3 adds full compatibility with the SSL admin enhancements from WordPress 2.6, and adds a number of security, stability and compatibility improvements. Details are available in the changelog. Please note that WordPress 2.6 is required for this release.
WordPress 2.6 introduced better support for a secure connection to the administrative area, which Ryan Boren covered pretty thoroughly in this article. Tarski 2.3 adds full support for this functionality, so you should now be able to save your Tarski options when using the admin area over SSL. However, due to the use of a number of new functions, WordPress 2.6 is a requirement.
A couple of minor security improvements have also been made. The Tarski options page can now only be accessed by users with the edit_themes capability. WordPress’ role system wraps around a capability-based user model, and it’s more secure to tie functionality to those capabilities than to roles which are more malleable.
As well as fixing a bug in the Links template, a number of tweaks have been made to improve Tarski’s performance and reliability. A long-standing problem with the upgrade process, where widget sidebar settings might be lost, has now been fixed. Tarski is also more reliant on WordPress’ own APIs, which should allow it to take advantage of performance and stability improvements made in the WordPress core.
In addition to this, the new navbar selector introduced in Tarski 2.2 is now fully compatible with Internet Explorer 6 and 7. There weren’t any reports of problems, presumably because Tarski users are more discriminating than the median internet citizen, but good cross-browser compatibility is a worthy goal nonetheless.
Thank you to everyone who tested the release candidates; I can only assume from the lack of responses that everything worked perfectly. Enjoy the new release.
Please post bugs and suggestions on the forum.
Tags: Internet Explorer, security, SSL, WordPress 2.6
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Pingback from Zeal's Blog · Upgrade Wordpress to 2.6 on August 11, 2008 at 2:34 am
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Updated, all working fine at my end.
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Great work as always, Ben!
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Worked like a champ. Ben, no complaint against your work, since that upgrade went so smoothly, but I look forward to WP 2.7 with the theme upgrade process (think Plugin Upgrade for Themes).
Two different plugins required some code modification. Fortunately good documentation (from when I first did it) made that upgrade a snap.
Again, many thanks for a great job.
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Great theme. Thanks! Smooth upgrade.
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jbf: yeah, I think 2.7 will be good for themes. The improvements to child themes should make customisation a lot easier.
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Just upgraded and everything is working great.
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Upgraded and works great!
Upgraded from Tarski 2.2.1 to 2.3 on Wordpress 2.6.
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Great theme. I wanted to know if there is any way that I can modify it to have 2 sidebars so I can have one on either side of the posts in the center.
Thanks.
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I’ve downloaded the upgrade and uploaded it into my themes folder on WP 2.6, but the upgrade didn’t happen. What am I doing wrong?
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Did you replace the old version?
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Yeah, I was having trouble with my FTP client—it wouldn’t create new directories. I’ve got the new version uploaded, but my problem now is that the Post Editor won’t switch to the VISUAL option, it’s stuck in the HTML viewer. Any ideas?
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Try the WordPress.org support forums.
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Pingback from WordPlay at Andux · Disqus Day on August 16, 2008 at 3:19 am
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Nice theme. But i didn’t find where is the “Post and page sidebar” widgets should be displayed…
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On posts and pages. It lets you define a different set of widgets for posts and pages than on the rest of your site. You need to tell Tarski that you want to use them, rather than your main sidebar; check the Tarski options page.
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aha… thanks
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Good theme!
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i love the upgraded theme! so clean and i can now easily add links to my navigation bar.. I just have one concern.. I wanted to remove the boarder line on images or banners on my sidebar.. is there a way to do that?.. thank you in advance.. =)
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nice theme ;-)
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wow wow wow, I love this theme! Can I use it in german a well?
thanks
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Joachim: yes, there’s a German translation available. Check the localisation page.
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I have problem when I upgrade 2.3. When I sign in as admin so site will have error Call to undefined function admin_url() in /home/onymarti/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/tarski/library/helpers/template_helper.php on line 399 but if I sign off, site work as well, thanks.
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WordPress 2.6 is required for Tarski 2.3.
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upgrade and it works, thanks…
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Great Work, I use this theme often
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Q1. Feature suggestion. If you have a longer left side bar, the comments appear after the left bar. There could be quite a whitespace gap between the post and comments. A feature request would be to put the comments after the post rather than after the the left bar. Or have that as an option.
Q2. Are these updates rolling into the templates available on wordpress.com
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If you have a longer left sidebar, you could consider using a different set of widgets on single posts and pages (that’s pretty much what I do here). The comments layout will likely change a bit when I add the threaded comments from WordPress 2.7, but I consider the current layout a fairly integral part of the theme.
I have no idea whether or not the WordPress.com guys pull in any of the changes I make; the WP.com version of Tarski is a fork which I have no direct control over.
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hi.
i want to translate this theme to persian language.
but i cant get .pot file! googlecod is bloked in iran!
pleas email me .pot file.
30theme@gmail.com
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Sorry to hear that; I’ve uploaded a copy of the POT file to this server.
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Hello there,
Just wanted to say I’ve been using your theme for a while now and it works flawlessly. I think the layout is really superb and clean.
Thanks for your hard work,
Michael
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Thanks Michael, I really appreciate the kind words.
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